Thursday, October 30, 2008

the motherload

rummaging... i do this quite often in my spare time. my family hasnever been quick to throw things out, so we've got boxes of oldmementos to sift through. certain things remain simply because they'vebeen put away and forgotten, while the nostalgic and sentimental valueof others is more evident. i've been enjoying some good rummagingtoday, and here are some of the little treasures and surprises i'vecome across.

- my old sports walkman and a pile of tapes (rock on, bryan adams)- rainbowed "amanda" stickers from grade 1 (i'm going to put one on my computer at work)- a can of coke from russia, best before 11/96 (completely evaporated)- 4 cans of NZ beer, circa 1996 (those can't be good)- name tags, order pads and packs of matches from the olive garden(along with completed comment cards saying what an excellent server iwas! why didn't i hand those in??)- jurassic park trading cards, magazines, stickers, calendars and other merchandise (oy, so embarrassing)- mr sketch smelly markers (mmm, cinnamon)- a stack of Mad magazines (what, me packrat?)

but i've found what i was looking for. the good stuff. all my oldletters and postcards dating back over 15 years. remember that postcardyou sent me from your grade 9 trip to seaworld? i still have it. theletters sent to me while i lived abroad? all safely filed away. butthere's more. i have the letters isent too. that's right, i'm a nerd and keep carbon copies orphotocopies of all of my outgoing letters. anything i've ever writtento you, whether mailed or hand-delivered, i have a copy of it. and thenof course there are the journals, going back to 1988.

i'm going to go read for a bit now. i'm sure i'll have some goodies to share as i go through!